A cow in Traill County has tested positive for anthrax, the first case in North Dakota this year.
State Veterinarian Susan Keller, DVM, said Monday that the dead cow was found in a herd that had 18 animals. The herd has been quarantined and
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The last report of equine leptospiral-induced abortions was in the April 2004 issue of
Rushing water, stagnant ponds, or even sudden dry stages after wet periods can lead to outbreaks of livestock disease.
Cases of Potomac horse fever (PHF) are starting to appear in Ohio, according to Catherine Kohn, VMD, PhD.
Current tests for Borrelia burgdorferi, a tick-borne spirochete (a spiral-shaped bacterium) that causes Lyme disease in people, horses, dogs, cats, and cows, often take several days to complete and can sometimes lack definitive answers fo
Potomac horse fever (PHF) is a disease that affects horses during warm weather months, occasionally causing outbreaks of diarrheal illness in horses that are kept near rivers, streams, or in irrigated pastures.
Minimizing your horse’s risk of contracting Potomac horse fever (PHF) might be as simple as shutting off the lights.
A workman on the site of Arsenal’s old stadium in North London might have found evidence to back up a piece of club folklore.
It was long rumored that a horse and cart had fallen into a pit while the original North Bank stand of Highbury
Potomac horse fever (PHF) is a bacterial disease that can affect horses of any age.
A 50% increase in the number of new Lyme Disease cases in humans reported in Massachusetts from 2004 to 2005 is prompting concerned public health officials to step up efforts to
Mild winters in the Midwest might bring veterinarians more than the usual number of cases of leptospirosis.
This is a followup to an article posted on TheHorse.com April 19 concerning deaths of horses in South Africa. You may read that news item here.
The
Huge advances have been made in our understanding of many equine diseases in the past two decades. But we have a lot more to learn before we can truly improve the way many of these diseases are prevented or treated. Consider the impact that
Further tests have been requested to determine the cause of death of 13 horses in South Africa’s Western Cape. Veterinarians and officials with the Western Cape Department of Agriculture met Wednesday, April 18, to discuss the outbreak and
The test samples are still pending, but officials have instituted a precautionary ban on equine movement into the areas of the Western Cape considered under surveillance and free of African horse sickness, the
Even though Jimmy Hoffa’s remains weren’t found, the Justice Department paid $160,000 to the owners of a Michigan horse farm to replace a barn the FBI removed last summer, records show.
Records released to The Detroit News under
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